Attempts to Procure Food & Payment for Troops, with Limited Funds
Document 1787Knox sends Wadsworth two orders, one for $1500 for rations and the other to defray the expences for the line. Further advances for the troops are necessary but cannot be sent until the troops on the Ohio River have received their pay and subsistence for the year.
HKnox March 28th 1787 War Office March 28th 1787 Sir Agreably to your request of the 18th instant, I now enclose you two orders, drawn in my favor on William Imlay Esq. by the board of Treasury each for 1500 Dollars. The order on account of rations is intended to be placed in your hands to defray the expences of rations, and the one for the quarter Masters department to defray the expences in that line. You will please immediately on the receipt of these bills to enclose me your duplicate receipts for them. You will please to keep the accounts separate and distinct, and the monies drawn on account of the warrants now forwarded cannot be applied to any other objects than those specified without involving in great embarrassment with the comptroller of the Treasury. As you are fully impressed with the necessity of accurate vouchers for the settlement of public accounts, you will please to direct that yours be kept perfectly so. I should have been happy that some further further advances, could have been made to the troops at this time, on account of their pay and subsistence, but the board of Treasury cannot make unequal advances to the troops, and those on the Ohio have not as yet for this year had either pay or subsistence. I am sir With great respect your very humble servant HKnox Col. Jeremiah Wadsworth
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